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Job 8:8-10
English Standard Version
Job 8:8-10
English Standard Version
8 “For (A)inquire, please, of bygone ages,
and consider what (B)the fathers have searched out.
9 For we are but of yesterday and know nothing,
for our days on earth are (C)a shadow.
10 Will they not teach you and tell you
and utter words out of their understanding?
Job 8:8-10
Common English Bible
Job 8:8-10
Common English Bible
Tradition
8 Ask a previous generation
and verify the findings of your ancestors,
9 for we are only recently here and don’t know
because our days on earth are a shadow.
10 Won’t they instruct you and tell you;
will words not[a] proceed from their hearts?
Footnotes
- Job 8:10 Heb lacks not.
English Standard Version (ESV) 
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